In response to [If Dinosaurs had REALLY lived side by side with human for centuries and into the 1400s, don't you think people would have mentioned it? Fairly often?]

Not at all. You have to remember, dinosaurs were not unusal or special to the people living at the same time as them anymore than elephants or whales are special to us. The people living at the same time as dinosaurs had no idea that in the future, certain people would claim dinosaurs all died out 70 million years ago...it's such an arbitrary and ridiculous idea.

We have soft dinosaur tissue present today and carvings of dinosaurs made in the late 1400's...how would people know what dinosaurs had looked like if they died out 70 million years ago?

Naturalis Historia, bitch. The best encyclopedic work of the roman empire period. NO mention of any kind of dinosaur while unicorns and phoenixes are mentioned alongside cats and dogs. How do you explin this? you don't? figures...

The idea that the ancients wouldn't have bothered writing about dinosaurs if they had seen them is ridiculous. They wrote about everything else around them. They even wrote about mastodon bones, which they thought were huge human leg bones.

The people of old painted and carved all sorts of creatures; griffins, dragons, imps with bat-like ears, winged horses, etc. There are whole "bestiaries" that were made by monks, most of whom had never been much beyond their own front gate. Check out the gargoyles on medieval buildings. It's not too surprising that a few might have looked like dinosaurs.

It was fossilized tissue, in other words minerals that had infiltrated and hardened into rock in the form of the tissue that was there. It was not 'meat' from a T-rex you idiot.

The fossiled tissue was dated at 65+ million years old. After being treated to remove most minerals it became somewhat pliant.

Unfortunately all the photos that went out with the news articles were of the tissue looking wet and red after being acid washed and further treated to demineralize it. The creationist crowd jumped on them saying that 'meat' could never have been preserved for 65 million years. (of course not idiots)

If they bothered to check their facts they would know this, but they don't care. It is just another thing that they can lie for jesus about to try to counter evolution.

Why is there a shitload of carvings, paintings, sculptures, writings, etc. portraying horses then? Horses are commonplace animals. Everybody knows what a horse is, especially back then, when they were pretty darn vital...

And yet Xenophon saw fit to write about horses and horsemanship, but oddly, not a word about dinosaurs...

You'd think at least one picture of a rider fighting off hordes of raptors, no?

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Efrain
... do you have proof of those dinosaurs?
Dinosaur carvings I mean.

Taking a guess here...since many dinosaur skeletons show where someone artistically filled in the missing portions with plaster, missing bones, etc., I've seen where fundies claim the "dino" was started with part of an old cow bone, and the whole rest of him was made up by teh evilll scientists, maybe with a helping hand from Tom Savini, Rick Baker, and the Devil Himself; Darwin. Bearing in mind, fundies are not prone to visit museums to study such things, if they saw one with a major portion filled in, or heard a rumor about one from another fundie, they would regard it as Gospel Truth(TM) and shut the door on further information. Hence; carvings = more lies from the Jesus haters.